Peter Blauner, Author . Little, Brown $24.95 (432p) ISBN 978-0-316-09873-1
You know you're in the 'burbs when a cop's epitaph for a murdered local drug dealer is, "Man, he was an asshole, but he had a beautiful lawn." In his fifth novel, Edgar-winner Blauner (The Intruder, etc.) imagines an idyllic...
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Peter Blauner, Author . Little, Brown $24.95 (386p) ISBN 978-0-316-09866-3
After sifting through the secrets of suburban life in The Last Good Day
, Blauner returns with a serpentine thriller about a decades-old murder case is reopened when the killer is released from prison. Twenty years earlier, Homicide Det. Francis X....
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Peter Blauner, Author William Morrow & Company $20 (431p) ISBN 978-0-688-10068-1
Blauner, an editor at New York magazine, comes achingly close to pulling off a gripping first novel. The two protagonists--young probation officer Steve Baum, fighting (sometimes successfully) New York City's bureaucracy on behalf of his clients,...
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Peter Blauner, Author Simon & Schuster $58 (400p) ISBN 978-0-684-81094-2
The Edgar-winning author of Slow Motion Riot (and of Casino Moon) makes an intense journey into Death Wish/Straw Dogs territory, producing an edged weapon of a novel that stabs at the fears of the urban middle class. Jacob Schiff is a successful...
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Peter Blauner, Author Avon Books $6.99 (370p) ISBN 978-0-380-71306-6
While vivid and gripping at times, this Edgar Award-winning novel about a Manhattan probation officer and his deadly charge suffers from its annoying first-person, present-tense narration. (July)
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Peter Blauner, Author Simon & Schuster $21 (256p) ISBN 978-0-671-88177-1
A young man's struggle to break free of his gangster family holds center stage in Blauner's second novel, a competent but derivative tale that's no match for his Edgar-winning Slow Motion Riot. The author again offers a gritty portrait of lowlifes,...
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Peter Blauner, Author Little Brown and Company $23.5 (420p) ISBN 978-0-316-03817-1
Thorough reportage and dead-on description make Blauner's latest city-streets novel (after 1997's paperback bestseller The Intruder) as impressive for its realism as for its suspense. David Fitzgerald is a slang-talking, highly literate 40-year-old...
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Peter Blauner. Minotaur, $25.99 (368p) ISBN 978-1-250-11744-1
Although it has been 11 years since Slipping into Darkness, Edgar-winner Blauner hasn’t lost his touch, as this page-turner demonstrates. Iraq war veteran Nathaniel Dresden (aka Natty Dread) has returned to New York City for the funeral of his...
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Peter Blauner. Minotaur, $27.99 (448p) ISBN 978-1-250-11741-0
Bestseller Blauner’s excellent sequel to 2017’s Proving Ground connects two strong story lines—the discovery of a body washed up on a beach in Far Rockaway, Queens, and a trail of murdered women along Long Island’s Route 27 (aka Sunrise Highway)...
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Peter Blauner. Minotaur, $27.99 (352p) ISBN 978-1-250-85101-7
In 1954 Egypt, the long-shot dream of a career in Hollywood for young Ali Hassan, the protagonist of this outstanding thriller from Blauner (Slow Motion Riot), seems on the cusp of realization. Legendary film director Cecil B. DeMille has arrived...
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